Padilla, Heberto

La mala memoria

Plaza & Janes Editores, Barcelona. 1989, 263p., text in Spanish, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps, personal inscription to a fellow author, signed by the author. Padilla, for whom The Padilla Affair is named, was a Cuban poet who initially supported the Castro revolution but began to criticize the regime openly in the 1960s. He was imprisoned and later released due to support from the Writers Union and was exiled to the US in 1980